Cultural Seeds: Essays on the Work of Nick Cave

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Introduction, TanyaDalziell, KarenWelberry
Part I Cultural Contexts
Chapter 1 The Light Within, JillianBurt
Chapter 2 Planting Seeds, ClintonWalker
Chapter 3 Nick Cave and the Australian Language of Laughter, KarenWelberry
Chapter 4 Nick Cave, Dance Performance and the Production and Consumption of Masculinity, LaknathJayasinghe
Part II Intersections
Chapter 5 An Audience for Antagonism, ChrisBilton
Chapter 6 And the Ass Saw the Angel, CarolHart
Chapter 7 Red Right Hand, AdrianDanks
Chapter 8 Grinderman, AngelaJones
Part III The Sacred
Chapter 9 From Mutiny to Calling upon the Author, RobertEaglestone
Chapter 10 Oedipus Wrecks, NathanWiseman-Trowse
Chapter 11 Fleshed Sacred, LynMcCredden
Chapter 12 The Moose and Nick Cave, TanyaDalziell

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Nick Cave is now widely recognized as a songwriter, musician, novelist, screenwriter, curator, critic, actor and performer. From the band, The Boys Next Door (1976-1980), to the spoken-word recording, The Secret Life of the Love Song (1998), to the recently acclaimed screenplay of The Proposition (2005) and the Grinderman project (2008), Cave's career spans thirty years and has produced a comprehensive (and sometimes controversial) body of work that has shaped contemporary alternative culture. Despite intense media interest in Cave, there have been remarkably few comprehensive appraisals of his work, its significance and its impact on understandings of popular culture. In addressing this absence, the present volume is both timely and necessary. Cultural Seeds brings together an international range of scholars and practitioners, each of whom is uniquely placed to comment on an aspect of Cave's career. The essays collected here not only generate new ways of seeing and understanding Cave's contributions to contemporary culture, but set up a dialogue between fields all-too-often separated in the academy and in the media. Topics include Cave and the Presley myth; the aberrant masculinity projected by The Birthday Party; the postcolonial Australian-ness of his humour; his interventions in film and his erotics of the sacred. These essays offer compelling insights and provocative arguments about the fluidity of contemporary artistic practice.

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[T]hese essays are a necessary start for a consideration of the abundantly provocative works of Nick Cave

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